Feel like you can't get anything done? Just don't have the get-up and go? Wonder why you can't get anything accomplished.?
My advice is to work hard to do things you don't like.
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The Grind
"Any idiot can face a crisis – it's day to day living that wears you out." – Anton Checkov.
The above quote sums up one of the secrets of success – and one of the reasons for failure – in people's lives.
First, just because you can deal with a crisis does not mean you can deal with non-crisis issues. You can rally your energies in the face of a crisis that's great – then again so can many of us, as adrenaline is a wonderful motivator. In fact I find a surprising amount of people do well in a crisis (often better than they think).
However, dealing with crises is only part of life, and (hopefully) a small part of it. Dealing with crises is important to survival, but crisis management rarely builds anything.
That's why the day to day living, the daily grind, is the thing you really have to cope with.
Success is Applying Fandom
I talk about applying our fannish and geeky interests to our careers. This brings up a subject I haven't really discussed:
What is SUCCESSFULLY applying your fandom to your career?
It's one of those things that seems obvious – until you really think of it – so I wanted to classify and clarify what I mean.
What is successfully applying your fandom to your career? I'd say it's the following:
- When your fannish interests have a place in your life that you're aware of (it may be only to blow off STEAM due to your career).
- When your fannish interests provide resources – from knowledge to contacts to more – that you effectively and consciously leverage in your career.
- When your fannish interests and career are not in conflict but support each other (perhaps at some point they may border on the indistinguishable).
That's successful fan-to-pro to me. The two support each other and you're aware of how your fandom can be used in the bigger picture (again, if only to relax you).
-Steven Savage